Belle’s Bagels Serves Up Elevated Comfort Food With a Creative Twist

There are few things that pair as nicely as fresh bagels and a leisurely weekend morning. Try to name a more comforting duo, I’ll wait. Belle’s Bagels, a New York meets Montreal style bagel shop that operates Thursday-Sunday mornings out of the front window of The Hi-Hat on York, has become an underground staple of Highland […]

There are few things that pair as nicely as fresh bagels and a leisurely weekend morning. Try to name a more comforting duo, I’ll wait. Belle’s Bagels, a New York meets Montreal style bagel shop that operates Thursday-Sunday mornings out of the front window of The Hi-Hat on York, has become an underground staple of Highland Park’s brunch scene, simultaneously capitalizing on the hangover-erasing power of a warm bagel sandwich and rectifying LA’s dire need for house-made bagels that can stand up to their east coast counterparts.

Belle’s Bagels was brought to life by Nick Schreiber and JD Rocchio, two east side locals who grew up together and are dedicated to making bagels that they describe as “elevated comfort food.” They pride themselves on hand-rolling all their bagels in house, and their ultimate MO is a sense of “bagel revivalism,” which means keeping the traditional bagel from the neighborhood bagel shop alive and thriving, while adding creative updates and incorporating fresh ingredients that are locally sourced. The idea behind the shop, which grew organically from a wildly popular neighborhood pop up in La Perla bakery on Figueroa, was to fill a noticeable blank in LA’s robust food scene: no one was making a must-have bagel, the kind that bridges the gap between traditional comfort food and modern creativity, that feels both warmly nostalgic and freshly unexpected.

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